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Originally Posted by JohnyCrash
The sad part is I think Americans are mostly good people and have suffered for their Governments screw ups. But the American public has to step up and stop these drones.
I don't think this is really true. American's are very good at patting themselves on the back about how good they are. But in reality American's are as tribalistic and selfish as any other people. We are one of the richest people's on earth, we eat better food then most people, we consume more of the earth's resource and
most people are blind to the cost.
we freak out when something kills a few thousand innocent Americans but are largely indifferent when our retaliation kills a 100K innocents abroad.
See how a large percentage of Americans acted when poor kids tried to get into our country recently to escape a country where they are regularly murdered or forced into criminal gangs.
I'm not in anyway suggesting the US is worse then other people - I think people are people and we happen to be a nation with an edge that keeps us above most people. And we're very compassionate towards many other atrocities so long as our edge isn't threatened.